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Principle Artists influenced by the Romanticism
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) Russian
John Constable (1776-1837) English,
Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) French,
William Blake (1757 - 1827) English,
Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) American
John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917) English
Joseph Mallord Turner
(1775-1851)
English
Description of Romanticism Style of painting
1782-1830
Romanticism originated in Germany and quickly moved to England in the early 1780s. In the beginning the romantic movement was advanced mainly by a number of German writers and poets. Their influence on painters was inspiring and lasting. According to French art historian W. C. Brownell, "It is true that, rightly understood, the romantic epoch is a period of evolution, and orderly evolution at that, if we look below the surface, rather than of systematic defiance and revolt. It is true that it recast rather than repudiated its inheritance of tradition. Nevertheless there has never been a time when the individual felt himself so free, when every man of any original genius felt so keenly the exhilaration of independence, when the "schools" of painting exercised less tyranny and, indeed, counted for so little. If it be exact to speak of the "romantic school" at all, it should be borne in mind that its adherents were men of the most marked and diverse individualities ever grouped under one standard. "
The Romantics exalted courtly love and sought only poetry and truth.
They refused to be restricted by the traditional approach to still-lifes,
seascapes, and landscapes. They explored a classical and increasingly
decorative painting style in which structure, forms and luminescent
colours were seen as having the power to evoke an emotional, and even
spiritual, response in the viewer. The
great Romantic painter
William
Bouguereau stated "One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I
always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only
one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye
with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in
Veronese and Titian." Music, literature and art acquired
profound or idealistic meaning. Legends, folklore, mythology and
fairytales were rich sources of inspiration. The Romantics dreamed of a
world made better through art that would articulate ideal beauty and the
nobleness of the true love.
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